Posted on 01/31/2012 10:15:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment.
While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded global warming for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.
For example in Circle Hot Springs, AK on Sunday, 29 Jan 2012 the HIGH temperature was a blistering -49°F, breaking the -44°F record which has stood since 1917. It gets better.
That same day in Circle Hot Springs the low temperature was -58°F breaking the old record of -52°F set in 1941 by six degrees.
Heres a list of temperature records in Alaska from the past week:
Brrr!
While all that was happening, the weather station in Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971. Thats not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, the weather station stopped reporting at -79°F.
Heres the data feed at that moment:
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Hey Ernest... we’re planning a summer trip up the Alcan Hwy to celebrate our 50th. I wasn’t planning to buy snow tires for the motorhome!!! (grin)
It is a bit hard to even comprehend what they must go through.
Is that what passes for a “hot” chick in Alaska?
As a kid, we used to live in Limestone, Maine and then came to CO. So I’m used to snow and cold, but I wouldn’t make it 5 minutes out in the wild in that kind of weather. Would love to visit AK someday during their brief warm period.
EEEEK!!
That’s too cold.
Thanks Ernest. Someone at work mentioned below-zero temps and storms in the Balkans.
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